Category: Safety

Experts in water safety and survival said the beaches in Singapore built on reclaimed land could spell trouble for people swimming there. The warning comes after a teenager drowned in waters off Changi Beach. The Singapore Civil Defence Force attended to 12 water-related incidents in the first half of 2020. In 2019, it responded to…

With immigration proceedings indefinitely postponed by the coronavirus pandemic, some migrants are attempting to cross the Rio Grande illegally — and drowning.

Concern over cars washed away in surf for NC swimmers after hurricane

The U.S. Coast Guard Sector Mobile says an attempt at a human chain left multiple swimmers in distress Saturday near Fort Morgan. The Coast Guard says it received a 9-1-1 report of a 9-year-old who had been swept out by the current. They say approximately 20 good Samaritans formed a human chain to reach the…

A boy who fell into a swimming pool is alive in part thanks to a Chino officer, and his mother shares her emotional thanks. As seen on NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Tueday, Aug. 25, 2020. http://4.nbcla.com/8TJQ0EM

First responders in an NYPD helicopter were called to rescue a distressed swimmer in Queens on Friday morning. Video shows the woman being hoisted from the water off Far Rockaway near Beach 20th Street and Seagrit Boulevard just before 9 a.m. A strong riptide swept the woman out too far from the shore. See CBS New York

An Aloha man is facing multiple charges including manslaughter after he hit a 13-year-old boy with a boat at Henry Hagg Lake on Friday evening.  Alexis Miranda-Bernal, 21, is charged with second-degree manslaughter, boating under the Influence of intoxicants (BUII) and recklessly endangering another person. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the collision between the…